As India presses forward to becoming one of the world??s great superpowers, a little reflection on what made this country is always important. That is exactly what The Elephant, The Tiger And The Cellphone: Reflections On India In The Twenty-First Century is. It is not a quick glance at modern India in its upcoming glory […]
Few books in recent years, if any, offer such a comprehensive overview of what ails India, its politicians and its people; and few writers, apart from Nirad Chaudhury and V. S. Naipaul, benefit so obviously from the perspective Tharoor offers, that of an Indian with a profound empathy for his native culture, combined with the […]
Shashi Tharoor is the prize-winning author of ten books, both fiction and non-fiction, and a widely published critic, commentator and columnist (including for The Hindu, Times of India and Newsweek). In 2007 he concluded a nearly twenty-nine-year career with the United Nations, including working for refugees in South-East Asia at the peak of the boat […]